The monument of matrones conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student.

The praier of Anne Askue the Martyr, before hir death.

O Lord, I haue mo enimies now than there be heares on my head: yet Lord, let them neuer ouercome me with vaine words, but fight thou Lord on my side. For on thee cast I my care. With all the spite they can imagine they fall vp∣on me, which am thy poore creature; yet sweete Lord, let me not set by them, which are against me: for in thee is my whole delight. And Lord, I hartilie desire of thee, that thou wilt of thy most mercifull goodnesse for∣giue them that violence which they doo, and haue done vnto me. Open also thou their blind harts, that they may hereafter doo that thing in thy sight, which is on∣lie acceptable before thee; and to set foorth thy veritie aright, without all vaine phantasies of sinfull man: So be it, O Lord, So be it.